Keep reading for The Artling's picks for exhibitions to catch this June in Beijing!
Beijing Art Now Gallery
Hong Shaopei Solo Exhibition
Hong Shaopei
10 March 2017 – 30 April 2018
Hong Shaopei is a Taiwanese artist who is known for his colourful minimal geometric works. His solo exhibition at Beijing Art Now Gallery features free-standing and wall-hung sculptural works.
Image courtesy of the artist and Beijing Art Now Gallery
Red Brick Art Museum
Chen Chieh-jen: Realm of Reverberations
Chen Chieh-jen
14 March – 11 June 2017
Realm of Reverberations is a four-channel video installation made by Chen Chieh-jen in 2014, that looks at the darker side of rapid urbanisation and displacement.
Image courtesy of the artist and Red Brick Art Museum
Galleria Continua
Qilian Range
Zhuang Hui
18 March – 18 August 2017
A fabulous exhibition by Yemen-born Zhuang Hui, it showcases his skill as both an oil-painter and a photographer, as he follows the Chinese tradition of retreating into the mountains in troubled times, practiced by scholars and artists.
Image courtesy of Galleria Continua
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017
Chen Chenchen, Cui Jie, Gao Lei, Guo Xi, Lawrence Lek, Li Jingxiong, Li Qi, Liang Ban, Liao Fei, and more
19 March – 18 August 2017
'The New Normal' takes China’s evolving national condition vis-à-vis the rising backlash against globalization on other continents as a point of departure, interrogating the efficacy of art—as a medium for both expression and action—in responding to a fragile and unpredictable present.
Image courtesy of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Shi Shang Art Museum
Recent Acquisition-Recent Development
Cao Fei, Cao Yu, Wang Haiyang, Simon Fujiwara, He Xinagyu and more
21 March – 20 November 2017
Si Shang Art Museum has selected sixteen contemporary artists, including eighteen new media art works from their collection, which reflect, question, and criticize these new and profound perspectives from varying aspects of our society.
Image courtesy of the artist and Si Shang Art Museum
Red Gate Gallery
Prajñāpāramitā
Ye Hongxing
27 April – 30 June 2017
Two intricate installations by Chinese Ye Hongxing re-work traditional Tibetan Buddhism symbols in contemporary three-dimensional Mandalas.
Image courtesy of Red Gate Gallery
Nine Artists
Bao Xiaoyu, Chen Jiaye, Chen Linggang, Han Qing, Jiang Weitao, Li Jinguo, Nong Shaohua, Su Xinping and Wang Lifeng
13 May – 11 June 2017
A showcase of nine artists that have partnered with Red Gate Gallery for a long time, culminating in this group show.
Image courtesy of the artist and Red Gate Gallery
Beijing Commune
The Unknown Depth of the Woods
Yang Xinguang
19 May – 8 July 2017
A solo exhibition of Yang Xinguang highlights his ability to work across disciplines in his conceptual inquisitions of material, combining synthetic man-made material, with organic natural ones. It evokes the notions of the arte-povera and mono-ha movements, as well as minimalism.
Image courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune
de Sarthe Gallery
Bu Qian
Zhou Wendou
20 May – 24 June 2017
In this exhibition, common objects such as lamps and slingshots remain unaltered yet submitted to different forces that rip off their original use and turn them into artistic installations by Beijing-born artist Zhou Wendou
Image courtesy of the artist and de Sarthe Gallery Beijing
PACE Beijing
Living Digital Forest and Future Park
teamLab
20 May – 10 October 2017
teamLab shows at PACE Beijing in an explosion of multi-sensory interactive experiences developed by the group of 'ultra-technologists', never ceasing to cast their magic spell over viewers.
Image courtesy of the artists and PACE Beijing
Long March Space
CAUSE AND EXAMPLES FROM IT
Inga Svala Thorsdottir & Wu Shanzhuan
27 May – 13 August 2017
Featuring the 'CAUSE' library model conceptualised by Inga and Wu in 1990s, two opposing processes: “perspective” and “projection” unfold simultaneously.
Image courtesy of the artists and Long March Space
M Woods
The Heart of the Tin Man
aaajiao, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ryan Gander, Yngve Holen, Institute for New Feeling, Austin Lee, Liu Wa, Sean Raspet, Pamela Rosenkranz, Amalia Ulman, and Gillian Wearing
30 June – 8 October 2017
'The Heart of the Tin Man' brings together works by twelve artists consciously revealing, investigating, or subverting current Internet or technological practices, and is drawn predominantly from the M WOODS Collection and the post-internet focus of co-founder Michael Xufu Huang.
Image courtesy of the artist and M Woods
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